{"id":21114,"date":"2011-03-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-23T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:03:01","slug":"obama_the_tea_party_is_racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/03\/obama_the_tea_party_is_racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: The Tea Party is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, this is interesting: &#8216;Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests.\u2019 Uh&#8230; (sigh) Didn\u2019t we used to hear that the only reason the right wing opposed Hillary was because <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125106.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignright\"\/>she\u2019s a woman? And, of course, the only reason we opposed Obama is \u2019cause he\u2019s black, and the only reason we opposed John Kerry is \u2019cause he\u2019s&#8230;uhhh&#8230;and the only reason we opposed Bill Clinton is because he\u2019s&#8230; uhhh&#8230;and the only reason we opposed Harry Reid is he\u2019s&#8230;uhhh&#8230;and the only reason that we oppose Joe Biden is that he\u2019s&#8230;uhhh&#8230;what? They\u2019re all idiots, folks! They\u2019re all liberals. We oppose liberalism; we don\u2019t care about the packaging. Remember this from Eric Holder, our brave attorney general? &#8216;My people,\u2019 he said of the New Black Panther Party. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re his people. He don\u2019t want to prosecute \u2019em. It wouldn\u2019t be right. It makes him feel queasy going after, quote, unquote, &#8216;my people,\u2019 he said. &#8221;Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been &#8212; and continue to be, in too many ways &#8212; essentially a nation of cowards,\u2019 Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month.\u2019 This is a couple of Black History Months ago. Now, if Obama says something in private about race relations that he won\u2019t say in public, then according to one Eric Holder, Obama\u2019s a coward, a despicable coward. This is from the president of the United States, from a man elected by the people.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! And by the way, speaking of race being a factor Tea Party: What was the black vote percentage for Obama, 110%? No, I\u2019m wrong, it was 120% or maybe 130% of the black vote went for Obama. (interruption) It was only 90%? Well, who\u2019s counting? Okay, so 92% of black vote went for Obama, and we\u2019re being told here that the Tea Party is obsessed with race, the Tea Party has as one of its &#8216;key components\u2019 racism. And, by the way, that holds true for all of his conservative opposition as well. You could fill a book &#8212; and it\u2019s still an interesting proposition &#8212; with what Obama doesn\u2019t know or what he\u2019s naive about. In fact, he\u2019s done that. (chuckles) He\u2019s filled two books with what he doesn\u2019t know: His autobiographies! <\/p>\n<p>Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. (interruption) Ninety-six percent? Obama won 96% of black vote. Right, and it\u2019s the Tea Party that\u2019s racist, and Obama\u2019s opposition is racist. Okay, cool. So this is from a man, too &#8212; Obama &#8212; claiming here that the Tea Party and conservative opposition is rooted in racism. It\u2019s a &#8216;key component.\u2019 This a guy who sat in Jeremiah Wright\u2019s &#8216;church\u2019 for more than 20 years and said he didn\u2019t hear anything. Barack Obama is an elitist snob with troubling opinions of his fellow Americans, but he doesn\u2019t say them publicly. He says them in this book. I think he\u2019s got some explaining to do. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that presidents don\u2019t say. They\u2019re presidents of all of the people. <\/p>\n<p>This is shocking. This may be too ugly to explore. This president obviously has a chip on his shoulder, several chips, and one has to do with race. Now, this book is by Kenneth T. Walsh: &#8216;Family of Freedom &#8212; Presidents and African-Americans in the White House.\u2019 It\u2019s a book devoted to: What does Obama think about being in there knowing full well that slaves built it? He gets asked about that: What do you think about being here when most of the servants are black? Here\u2019s an excerpt from it: &#8216;But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Tea Party\u2019 movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn\u2019t helping them&#8230;\u2019 That may be true, but none of it was race-based! &#8216;A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to &#8216;take back\u2019 their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn\u2019t dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a &#8216;subterranean agenda\u2019 in the anti-Obama movement &#8212; a racially biased one &#8212; that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>I think this is the most&#8230; It is totally classless. It is totally classless. The guy just got elected president of this country! He is historic in that sense. He is the first black president. But my point is Eric Holder says that we don\u2019t have the guts to have a public discussion about this. We\u2019re &#8216;cowards.\u2019 Well, leading the coward parade\u2019s Obama. He doesn\u2019t have the guts to say this stuff in public but he says it in his Kenneth T. Walsh guy from US News writing this book. Now, let me ask you a question: How many people really think of Obama as black? (I mean, apart from Chris Matthews, who\u2019s obsessed with that.) One of Obama\u2019s parents was black. Undeniable. <\/p>\n<p>But he was raised by a white mother and by white grandparents. He went to a highly exclusive private school in Hawaii with rich white students and white teachers. He went to exclusive colleges that were practically lily white. &#8216;Barry\u2019 Obama is from a very white, albeit radical-left, cultural background. He\u2019s not from the &#8216;hood. He not from the move-ment. Although I\u2019m beginning to think, you know, maybe he\u2019s right. Everything is race for him, the race for the presidency. He can play upon his race and skin color to get reelected (surely he will, surely he is now). So it\u2019s all about making himself a victim. I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s a chip on this guy\u2019s shoulder &#8212; and, folks, it is a factor in every policy decision he makes. Every agenda item that he has. <\/p>\n<p>And by the way, what Tea Party or conservative types are mad because they aren\u2019t getting enough &#8216;help from the government\u2019? Is that what they\u2019re mad about? They look at the help the mortgage crowd\u2019s getting and they don\u2019t see themselves getting? They look at all the poor is getting? No, that\u2019s not what animates the Tea Party people! What animates them is the size of government, the never-ending spending, the creating of never-ending dependency, and the ultimate destruction of the greatness of the country. When\u2019s Obama gonna have the courage to start calling a &#8216;bitter clinger\u2019 a bitter clinger in public and not just behind closed doors, like he did in San Francisco at the fundraiser, like in this book? Remember, now, it was his own attorney general who didn\u2019t want to prosecute the New Black Panthers, didn\u2019t want to prosecute his people, quote, unquote. He says that we\u2019re cowards \u2019cause we won\u2019t discuss race. <\/p>\n<p>Hell, even when I don\u2019t discuss race I\u2019m accused of it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, this is interesting: &#8216;Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests.\u2019 Uh&#8230; (sigh) Didn\u2019t we used to hear that the only reason the right wing opposed Hillary was because she\u2019s a woman? 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